Many people have such a
low regard for the Lord. They do not
hold Him up in high esteem. God is
treated as one of us. Many have taken
the truth that God is with us to mean that He is one of us. God may be deemed to be greater than we are,
but barely. Many speak of Him in ways
that make Him to be less supreme to us than He actually is. God as being perfectly holy and worthy of our
humility before Him does not captivate most of us.
God is often treated as
an extra in our lives. We give Him attention,
but He is not the center of our attention.
We acknowledge His realness and presence, but we don’t invest our lives
in Him in such a way that He is Lord over us.
In practice, we devote more time and energy on other things than we do
God. He is not our supreme God. We allow idols in our lives and give them the
place in our lives that God alone deserves.
The Lord says that we
must stop putting other things before Him.
He is not pleased with us when we give Him lip service and when we do, He
will not acknowledge the time we do give Him.
What we offer to Him is regarded as an insult to Him. If our hearts are not devoted to Him, the
Lord will not tolerate what we do in His name.
We live and worship in vain if God is not supreme in our lives. God is a jealous god and He says all such
things must stop; they are a desecration of His holy name.
How convinced do you
think God is when you claim that He is yours and you are His? He knows your heart and is not fooled by the
things that fool us. If Jesus is not
your Lord you are not living a life pleasing and acceptable to God. He demands our full attention. We are to love Him with all of our heart,
mind and soul. There is no room for
anything less. We need to stay in
constant vigilance over our souls. We
need to examine our hearts to see if Jesus is indeed Lord of them. If He is not, you need to bow before Him
today until He is.
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